Even more OT - sorry

Microsoft has supported competitors before, this was cited by MS during the anti-trust trials as an example of their benevolence. Cynics would claim it as MS having enough investment capital to burn that they can easily afford to spend $100m on PR exercises.

Given the current MS attitudes, I think you're right - the anti open source faction has gained control, I don't expect their support for Activestate to continue.

I suspect that currently MS is quietly confident that the anti-trust suit will be quashed by the Bush admin. So we can expect lots more aggressive moves like this - makes sense, open source is now their biggest competitor.

Overall I'd say this will hurt Microsoft, more than it will hurt open source. It's harder to quash a community of individuals than it is a few shareholders and directors. Plus attacking open source will build up its credibility... at least they're not laughing at us any more.

"The future will be better tomorrow."

In reply to Re: Re (tilly) 2: Microsoft vs. Perl and sloppy programming - Wildly OT by Mungbeans
in thread Microsoft vs. Perl and sloppy programming - Wildly OT by Ovid

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